Positions

Overview

  • Dr. Anita R. Tucker is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Social Work at the University of New Hampshire in the College of Health and Human Services. She is the Coordinator of UNH's Dual Masters Degree in Social Work and Recreation Management and Policy which prepares graduate students for careers in adventure and wilderness therapy. In addition, Dr. Tucker is the new Co-Coordinator of the Outdoor Research Collaborative on Health, Wellbeing and Experiential Engagement with Co-Coordinator, Dr. Christine Lynn Norton, a new evoluation of the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare (OBH) Center for Research. Dr. Tucker's research focuses primarily on the process and outcomes of outdoor, adventure and experiential practice including increasing access to supportive services and improving outcomes for participants.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2024 Intentional Practices of Adventure Therapy Facilitators: Shinning Light into the Black Box.  Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.  41:889-905. 2024
    2023 Positive Youth Development and Adventure Therapy with Underserved Youth: An Evaluation of the Chicago Voyagers Program.  Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership.  15. 2023
    2023 How adolescents view the role of the wilderness in wilderness therapy: “I am in the middle of nowhere and that is okay”.  Children and Youth Services Review.  153:107045-107045. 2023
    2023 Promoting resilience in college students through group-based adventure therapy.  Journal of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.  15:1-1. 2023
    2022 Social work in sport: Playmakers in the athletic arena.  Journal of Social Work.  22:692-714. 2022
    2022 Understanding the Needs of Social Workers in Sport Settings: Opportunities for Specialized Education and Training.  Journal of Social Work Education.  59:331-345. 2022
    2021 Understanding trauma-related distress among wilderness therapy field staff.  Journal of Therapeutic Schools and Prorgrams.  13:69-101. 2021
    2020 Best practices for working with transgender clients in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare.  Journal of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.  7:53-69. 2020
    2020 Utilizing Outdoor Adventure Therapy to Increase Hope and Well-Being Among Women at a Homeless Shelter.  Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership.  12:87-101. 2020
    2019 Adventure therapy and its impact on the functioning of youth in a community setting.  Social Work with Groups: a journal of community and clinical practice.  42:1-15. 2019
    2019 Adventure therapy and its impact on the functioning of youth in a community setting.  Social Work with Groups.  42:127-141. 2019
    2019 Family Enrichment Adventure Therapy: A Mixed Methods Study Examining the Impact of Trauma-Informed Adventure Therapy on Children and Families Affected by Abuse..  Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma.  12:85-95. 2019
    2019 A Qualitative Gender Analysis of Women Field Guides' Experiences in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare: A Feminist Social Work Perspective.  Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work.  34:48-64. 2019
    2019 The Value of Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare for Adolescent Substance Users with Comorbid Conditions..  Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment.  13:1178221819870768. 2019
    2018 Longitudinal Outcomes for Youth Transported to Wilderness Therapy Programs.  Research on Social Work Practice.  28:438-451. 2018
    2018 The effectiveness of outdoor behavioral healthcare with struggling adolescents: A comparison group study a contribution for the special issue: Social innovation in child and youth services.  Children and Youth Services Review.  88:241-248. 2018
    2018 Facilitative coaching: a guide for youth sport leaders.  Leisure/ Loisir.  42:129-148. 2018
    2018 Learning through the adventure of youth sport.  Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.  23:280-293. 2018
    2017 Infusing a Peer-to-Peer Support Program With Adventure Therapy for Adolescent Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder.  Journal of Experiential Education.  40:394-408. 2017
    2017 Changes in Late Adolescents and Young Adults' Attachment, Separation, and Mental Health During Wilderness Therapy.  Journal of Child and Family Studies.  26:511-522. 2017
    2017 Cultural issues in adventure programming: applying Hofstede's five dimensions to assessment and practice.  Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning.  17:307-320. 2017
    2017 Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare: Its Impact on Family Functioning.  Journal of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.  1:21-40. 2017
    2016 Adventure Therapy: Nondeliberative Group Work in Action.  Social Work with Groups.  39:194-207. 2016
    2016 Family Therapy in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare: Current Practices and Future Possibilities.  Contemporary Family Therapy.  38:32-42. 2016
    2016 The Impact of Wilderness Therapy: Utilizing an Integrated Care Approach.  Journal of Experiential Education.  39:15-30. 2016
    2015 The Role of Transport Use in Adolescent Wilderness Treatment: Its Relationship to Readiness to Change and Outcomes.  Child and Youth Care Forum.  44:671-686. 2015
    2015 The Impact of Community Based Adventure Therapy on Stress and Coping Skills in Adults..  The Practitioner Scholar: Journal of Counseling and Professional Psychology.  4:1-16. 2015
    2014 An Exploration of Gender, Client History, and Functioning in Wilderness Therapy Participants.  Residential Treatment for Children and Youth.  31:155-170. 2014
    2014 How Presenting Problems and Individual Characteristics Impact Successful Treatment Outcomes in Residential and Wilderness Treatment Programs.  Residential Treatment for Children and Youth.  31:135-153. 2014
    2014 Adventure Therapy With Youth.  Journal of Experiential Education.  37:46-59. 2014
    2014 Body composition changes in an Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare program.  Ecopsychology.  6:174-182. 2014
    2013 The Use of Adventure Therapy Techniques by Clinical Social Workers: Implications for Practice and Training.  Clinical Social Work Journal.  41:333-343. 2013
    2013 On Belay.  Journal of Experiential Education.  36:93-105. 2013
    2013 The Use of Adventure Therapy in Community-Based Mental Health: Decreases in Problem Severity Among Youth Clients.  Child and Youth Care Forum.  42:155-179. 2013
    2013 A new phase for the NATSAP PRN: Post-discharge reporting and transition to the network wide utilization of the Y-OQ 2.0.  Journal of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.  6:7-19. 2013
    2012 Effects of Program Differences With Wilderness Therapy and Residential Treatment Center (RTC) Programs.  Residential Treatment for Children and Youth.  29:202-218. 2012
    2011 Shifts in Attachment Relationships: A Study of Adolescents in Wilderness Treatment.  Child and Youth Care Forum.  40:499-519. 2011
    2011 Enhancing Fidelity in Adventure Education and Adventure Therapy.  Journal of Experiential Education.  33:258-273. 2011
    2011 Four Years Along: Emerging Traits of Programs in the NATSAP Practice Research Network (PRN).  Journal of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.  1:10-18. 2011
    2010 New Heights.  Groupwork.  20:24-44. 2010
    2009 Adventure-Based Group Therapy to Promote Social Skills in Adolescents.  Social Work with Groups.  32:315-329. 2009
    2008 Attention to Treatment Fidelity in Social Work Outcomes: A Review of the Literature from the 1990s.  Social work research (Print).  32:185-190. 2008
    2006 Assessing treatment integrity: A case example.  Family Preservation Journal.  9:23-38. 2006
    A Mixed Methods Exploration of Participants’ Perspectives: A Wilderness-Based Adventure Therapy Program for Youth Who Have Experienced Cancer.  Journal of Experiential Education. 
    Positive Youth Development at Sea: A Case Study of the Shenandoah Model.  Journal of Experiential Education. 
    Sport Social Work: Unique Opportunities, Benefits, and Barriers.  Sport Social Work Journal.  35-52.

    Book

    Year Title
    2020 Adventure Group Psychotherapy An Experiential Approach to Treatment 2020

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2020 Psychological First Aid for Outdoor Programs.  42-53. 2020
    2018 Blazing a trail..together: The need for mentoring and collaboration among women in outdoor leadership..  801-813. 2018
    2017 Engaging families in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare..  263-283. 2017
    2017 Program evaluation for health and human service programs: How to tell the right story successfully..  425-441. 2017
    2015 1999: History of the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research Cooperative..  119-126. 2015

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2017 Gender oppression and liberation experienced by female guides in outdoor behavioral healthcare.  Proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Experiential Education Research (SEER).. 9-11. 2017

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    Other Research Activities

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    • Teaching Activities

  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course
  • Special Projects & Ind Study Taught course
  • Special Topics Taught course
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2024
  • Special Projects & Ind Study Taught course 2024
  • Adventure Therapy Facilitation Taught course 2023
  • Special Projects & Ind Study Taught course 2023
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2022
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2022
  • Special Projects & Ind Study Taught course 2022
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2021
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2021
  • Adventure Therapy Facilitation Taught course 2021
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2020
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2020
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2019
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2019
  • Adventure TherapyFacillitation Taught course 2019
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2018
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2018
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2018
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2017
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2017
  • Adventure Therapy Taught course 2017
  • Research Methods in Soc Work Taught course 2017
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2016
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2016
  • Research Methods in Soc Work Taught course 2016
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2015
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2015
  • Topics/Adventure Therapy Taught course 2015
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2014
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2014
  • Data Analysis and Statistics Taught course 2014
  • Introduction to Social Work Taught course 2014
  • Research Methods in Soc Work Taught course 2014

    • Education And Training

  • B.A. Political Science & Government, Dartmouth College
  • M.S.W. Social Work, University of Michigan
  • Ph.D. Social Work, Boston College

    • Full Name

  • Anita Tucker